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Best Offbeat Answers

Published on October 15, 2003

Some of you hilariously misinterpreted our questions. Other respondents knew exactly what they were doing: riffing on our straitlaced queries with irreverent, weird, extremely unnecessary answers in questionable taste. Here are a few standouts:

BEST CAPITALIST: "Oxymoron"

BEST TEACHER: "Mrs. Robinson"

BEST LOCAL ENTERTAINER: "Crazy guy in front of Pottery Barn"

BEST DAILY PAPER: "Toilet"

BEST INDEPENDENT MUSIC STORE: "Sam Goody," "Tower," "Target," "Wal-Mart"

BEST BOWLING ALLEY: "Mormon Bowling Temple"

BEST RIDE AT THE FUN FOREST (SEATTLE CENTER): "Forgot his name"

BEST AMENITY FOR A MONORAIL STATION: "Muzak"

BEST SEATING SECTION AT SAFECO FIELD: "What's a Safeco?"

BEST PLACE TO PICK UP SOMEONE STRAIGHT: "The Republican Party"

BEST CAR FOR SEATTLE: "A bicycle"


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